Chapter 306: Treatment
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Was there really a misunderstanding?!
Many commoners couldn’t help but have this thought, shaking their originally firm beliefs.
Even the scholar, Zhang Min, was a little uncertain. The eldest princess looked even younger than his daughter and was even weaker. She was like a fragile porcelain doll, as if she would break with a touch.
Chu Yi gently touched the top of her soft head and comforted her gently, “Don’t worry, Father knows what he’s doing.”
He was also aware of this.
An extremely cold glint flashed across Chu Yi’s eyes.
In front of An Le, he was always her gentle and reliable elder brother.
An Le looked at Gu Yanfei and smiled happily. “Sister.”
This smile added a faint blush to her pale cheeks, making her look more lively.
That was great. She still had time to hand over the white rabbit lantern that she and her eldest brother had made to her sister.
From the moment An Le appeared, Gu Yanfei’s gaze landed on An Le’s small face like everyone else. However, she was observing her complexion.
Her face was pale.
Her aura was weak.
Her glabella had turned black.
The day before yesterday, when she first saw An Le on the pleasure boat in the palace, although An Le was a little weak, she wasn’t so weak that her life was hanging by a thread.
However, from An Le’s current appearance, it seemed like she was on her last breath.
She would lose her life after this last breath was gone.
Gu Yanfei could conclude that if she were to let An Le be, she wouldn’t be able to live for more than 20 hours.
She narrowed her eyes thoughtfully as her thoughts raced.
As the saying went, illness came like a landslide.
However, in reality, there was a process to the deterioration of any disease. After all, diseases weren’t like knives that could kill with a single stab.
Hence, when Gu Yanfei heard that the eldest princess was critically ill this morning, she clearly realized one thing—
This wasn’t an illness.
If it wasn’t an illness, what could it be?
Was she poisoned?
Or perhaps..
Gu Yanfei’s pupils dilated slightly. She walked quickly to An Le’s side and grabbed her right wrist. With just a light touch, her expression changed.
Gu Yanfei muttered to himself: “Gu!?”
Her voice was very soft and only Chu Yi, who was closest to her, heard it.
Chu Yi’s expression changed and his eyes darkened. He looked down at An Le’s face, which was as pale as paper.
Gu Yanfei took out her needle bag and took out a silver needle from it. She stared at An Le’s peaceful black eyes and comforted her gently. “Don’t be afraid.”
An Le smiled obediently. “I’m not afraid.”
She was weak and sickly. Over the years, she had drunk more medicine than water. From time to time, the imperial physicians would perform acupuncture on her and bleed her. She was already used to these.
“It doesn’t hurt.” Gu Yanfei quickly used a silver needle to prick the tip of her finger.
Her actions were very fast. Before An Le could react, Gu Yanfei had already retracted the silver needle.
A drop of dark red blood flowed out from her fingertip.
In the eyes of ordinary people, there was nothing wrong with this.
But to Gu Yanfei, the drop of blood on the silver needle was very wrong.
Her blood was filled with a thin wisp of gray gas that couldn’t be seen by the naked eye.
It was a Gu.
Gu was the king of all insects. If tens of thousands of poisonous insects were placed in an urn, they would devour each other. A year later, the last poisonous insect left was ‘Gun.
There were many types of Gu. Different methods could nurture different Gu.
Golden Silkworm Gu, Qilin Gu, Snake Gu, Stone Gu, Swelling Gu, Poison God.. There were hundreds of types of Gu that she knew of, and there were countless Gu that she didn’t know of.
Gu was much more troublesome than poison!
Gu Yanfei looked at the drop of blood on the tip of the needle and her expression turned serious.
The air instantly turned heavy. The dark clouds in the sky had unknowingly piled up in the sky again, as if a storm was coming.
The entrance of the palace became more and more crowded. There were even more people who rushed over when they heard that the Sage had arrived at Chengtian Gate, wanting to catch a glimpse of the Sage’s face. There were also people who left quietly without alerting anyone.
A young man in gray spurred his horse and galloped through the streets and alleys of the capital, heading towards the Yu Residence in the south of the city.
Before him, there was another person who left from the right gate of Chang’an an hour ago and also went to the Yu family.
At this moment, that person had already arrived at the Yu Residence’s outer courtyard hall and was reporting what had happened at the palace gate to the head of the Yu Residence.
Outsiders thought that Eldest Madam Yu had brought her niece to the capital this time, but no one knew that the Yu Family Head had also secretly come.
The British Duchess, Madam Yu, was also sitting in the hall.
The hall was filled with an oppressive and solemn atmosphere.
..The magistrate of the imperial capital couldn’t stop him. The scholar called Zhang Min had already sounded the drum an hour ago.” The middle-aged man standing in the middle of the hall maintained his cupped fist posture and lowered his face respectfully.
After reporting, the middle-aged man stood there like an ancient pine tree, motionless and silent.
The room fell into a dead silence.
The Yu siblings’ expressions didn’t look too good. Thick dark clouds surged onto their foreheads, and their hearts sank to the bottom.
The whole thing had gone out of control in another direction, completely beyond their expectations.
Madam Yu gripped the handkerchief in her hand tightly. Her face was as dark as water as she said angrily, “What is Shangqing doing?!”
“How did he let this happen?!”
She frowned deeply, and her voice was high-pitched. She could no longer maintain her aristocratic bearing.
This matter was originally a scheme using the eldest princess’s life and death as a bargaining chip.
Ever since the eldest princess was in danger, Shangqing had suggested to the Emperor that he wanted to refine the Heart Pill with the blood of a child. Whether the Emperor was willing or not, it was no longer important.
With this excuse, they could help to encourage a fire.
As long as someone spilled blood on the right gate of Chang’an, the anger of the people would definitely be aroused. All the people would think that the Emperor was a cruel and tyrannical tyrant.
In this way, they could logically push the people to the opposite side of the emperor, causing the Emperor to be unpopular with the people.
At that time, Kang Wang only needed to raise his arm and shout. Not only the aristocratic families, but even those poor people would stand with Kang Wang to suppress the Emperor.
Those who lost the hearts of the people would lose the world!
Naturally, the Emperor’s throne wouldn’t be stable anymore..